Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Computer numerical control specialist TTL has become the latest member of the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry.

TTL has manufactured technology and multi-axis machining software for more than 25 years and will now be supporting the MTC’s advanced manufacturing and engineering research.

TTL, based in Buckinghamshire, supplies its software and technology to a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace and pharmaceuticals.

It also supplies complex gearbox, suspension and aerodynamic components to Formula One.

MTC chief executive Clive Hickman said: “TTL has worked with companies who are already members of the MTC.

“The company has an excellent reputation, particularly in the automation of gas turbine manufacturing, and the expertise it brings will be an asset to the MTC.”

TTL’s managing director Rob Pope added: “We have been at the forefront of computer numerical control machining technology for many years and are proud and delighted to be part of the Manufacturing Technology Centre community.”

The MTC opened in 2011 and was founded by the University of Birmingham, Loughborough University, the University of Nottingham and TWI.

ZBRELLA, a top technology consulting firm with a focus on the legal industry, has announced that it has reached an agreement with Smart Advocate to become strategic partners.

Jerrold S. Parker, the co-founder of national personal injury law firm Parker Waichman LLP, developed SmartAdvocate over 10 years ago out of his own frustration with the limited capabilities of the available law firm customer resource management (CRM) tools available at the time. SmartAdvocate provides a web-based CRM tool developed specifically for effective and efficient case management by personal injury law firms. The software has been in use and continuous development for over a decade. It is used daily by a New York-based national law firm with over 50,000 intakes per year.

Under the strategic partnership agreement, ZBRELLA will resell, install, and provide training for Smart Advocates. Michael Zucchi, ZBRELLA co-founder and CEO, said the partnership is a natural fit for the two organizations. He said as leaders in their respective trades, ZBRELLA and SmartAdvocate stand to gain much from the relationship which will greatly benefit their current and future clients.

“Smart Advocate is the absolute leader when it comes to case management solutions for downstate New York Personal Injury attorneys and ZBRELLA welcomes Smart Advocate into our portfolio of strategic partners,” Zucchi said. “At ZBRELLA, we are the top-notch technology firm in New York, and we associate with only the best. The partnership will deliver opportunities for our clients to benefit from real-time business information and business process automation.”

ZBRELLA tailors its solutions to each client. ZBRELLA works with its customers to find and implement the right software and hardware solutions, trains them how to use the technology and provides ongoing support to ensure the strategy in place continues to work for the client. And because ZBRELLA is deeply entrenched in the software industry, it is constantly monitoring new advances and determining how they could better serve their clients.

SafeNet today announced an enhanced version of the Sentinel Envelope file-wrapper technology within its software protection, licensing, and entitlement management system, Sentinel License Development Kit (LDK).
With the new AppOnChip functionality, software developers bind protected software to hardware keys, requiring the physical presence of the key to not only validate usage authorization but to execute the code itself, further strengthening the protection, said a press release.
AppOnChip is a fully automated process for binding a Sentinel hardware key to protected software by forcing selected pieces of code to execute on the key. In the absence of the key, the application fails to execute. All this is done without storing any of the application code on the key itself, the release added.

Michael Zunke, CTO of SafeNet’s software monetization division, said, “Many ISVs have avoided implementing software security to the level provided by AppOnChip because it was a cumbersome, manual process.”

“Now, SafeNet customers can implement token-based software execution technology at the touch of a button. We believe that the additional security that AppOnChip delivers makes Sentinel LDK the most secure software licensing implementation available in the market,” added Zunke.

* Stronger security – As AppOnChip forces a small piece of code to run on the token, and the results are necessary for the application to fully execute, the application will fail to execute without the hardware key. Software vendors can choose which specific code blocks should be protected via an easy-to-use graphical interface.

* Easy implementation – The process of binding the software to the hardware key, analyzing which code can be executed on the token, and converting code into token-executable form is fully automated- no engineering effort is required.

* Nothing is stored on the token – Unlike competitive solutions, all of the code resides on the hard drive of the machine running the protected application. Only at run time, a small piece of code is executed on the token. User memory on the key is not impacted.

* Internal processes are unaffected – Protected applications do not require version tracking at the software vendor’s end, and key updates in the field are not required for new versions of the protected software.